One of the greatest ironies that has come out of our contemporary existence is how we have managed to make an infinitely interconnected, globalised world filled with unimaginably closeminded individuals and communities.

At midday, after a two-hour wait for crates of bottled water and vats of petrol to load, the horn blows and the ferry slowly chugs away from the port at Kingstown, the capital of St Vincent and the Grenadines.

Muslims are a small minority in Trinidad and Tobago – around five percent. The majority are of Indian descent, although there is a growing number of Muslims hailing from the African population.

Vellum Publishing is a new independent publisher based in Manchester, currently launching an intriguing list of poetry and non-fiction with a focus on internationalist and Muslim voices.

We are at a civilisational turning point. This is the message in a literary celebration of longtermism by one of its most visible advocates.

‘Home, grief, deracination’ – here is the trio of themes running through journalist Tom Parfitt’s debut book High Caucasus.

In 2007, French President Nicolas Sarkozy delivered an address before an assembly of carefully selected academics at Cheikh Anta Diop University in the Senegalese capital. The speech was a diplomatic attempt to stitch the frayed seams of the relationship between France and Africa.

Three poems by Kabir.

Two Poems by Allama Muhammad Iqbal.

A short story by Alev Adil.